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The Resolution of the 46th Session of the Commission on Population and Development recognized the centrality of meeting the needs of women and young people through migration policies and programs that respect and protect human rights. In recent years, demographic patterns have shifted dramatically...Read more

IPPF/WHR joins RH Reality Check, Women's Link Worldwide, and others who are demanding that the government of El Salvador permit doctors to perform an abortion to save Beatriz’s* life. Beatriz is a 22-year-old woman from a poor, rural area in El Salvador. She is pregnant with a high risk of maternal...Read more

On the first day of the 46th Session of the Commission on Population and Development at the United Nations in New York City, the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) launched its new vision for the future of international development. A 10-point call to action for governments, Vision...Read more

As the program manager at Asociación Civil de Planificación Familiar (PLAFAM) in Venezuela, Belmar Franceschi is responsible for implementing all of the organization’s programs related to sexual and reproductive health and rights. She began working as a counselor at PLAFAM’s clinic in Petare while...Read more

As the Executive Director of Centro Ecuatoriano para la Promoción y Acción de la Mujer (CEPAM), Tatiana Ortiz has her hands full. Not only is Tatiana responsible for implementing the organization’s strategic political objectives, but she also guides program development and execution and leads...Read more

The passion Juana Cooke brings to her work can only be described as infectious. The Executive Director of Asociación Panameña para el Planeamiento de la Familia (APLAFA) wins people over with her sharp wit and joyful humor. But when it comes to enabling women to have bodily autonomy and access to...Read more

Decades before Sheryl Sanberg told women to "lean in" or Anne-Marie Slaughter explained why women still can’t have it all, a Muslim mother of five broke through the glass ceiling at the United Nations. As the former executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Dr. Nafis Sadik...Read more

I used to assume that violence against women was something others did: a stranger, a family member, the State. While violence feeds on social structures and power imbalances between men and women, gender-based violence is an act that begins when a person decides to be violent. Statistically, those...Read more

Let's talk man to man: At some point in our lives, we may have come to believe that women are the weaker sex. Men have believed ourselves more capable and smarter than women, endowed with the right to subordinate them because of our supposed superior nature. But what gave us that idea? Since...Read more

Throughout my work with survivors of gender-based violence, I have met women with incredible resilience. My clients, predominantly women from Latin America and the Caribbean, had a range of experiences, including domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking. The sexual and reproductive...Read more